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Last published 2026
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Alissa Blair

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Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: University of Wisconsin–Madison (2014–2018); Adıyaman University (2025)

Faculty Researcher

4 h-index 25 pubs 205 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Alissa Blair's research investigates educational practices and policies impacting multilingual learners and diverse student populations. Her work examines the implementation of linguistic and pedagogical strategies within school systems, including the use of translanguaging and culturally sustaining pedagogy. Blair also analyzes the discursive tactics within educational policy, such as critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies. Her recent publications explore the creation of leadership spaces in multilingual school ecologies, scaffolding for multilingual learners, and the role of generative artificial intelligence in reading and writing instruction. She has collaborated with researchers Vicki S. Collet, Christian Z. Goering, Jason L. Endacott, and Christopher Giller at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Blair's scholarship includes 25 publications and has garnered 201 citations, with an h-index of 4.

Metrics

  • h-index: 4
  • Publications: 25
  • Citations: 205

Selected Publications

  • ‘Anything physical I’m big on now’: learning to support emergent bilingual students (2026)
    Pedagogy Culture and Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Linguistic resources and classroom conditions for translanguaging in a newly expanding language ecology (2026)
    Bilingual Research Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Integrating a Functional Approach to Language Development in University Teacher Education Coursework (2025)
  • The discursive tactics of perpetuating white normativity in public education: A critical policy discourse analysis of anti-CRT policies across 18 states (2025)
    Education Policy Analysis Archives 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Advancing principles of systemic functional linguistics in responsive graduate teacher education through design-based research (2025)
    Journal of English for Academic Purposes DOI OpenAlex
  • Expanding teacher understanding of scaffolding for multilingual learners using a language-based approach to content instruction (2024)
    TESOL in context 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Distributed <i>liderazgo</i> : the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology (2024)
    International Journal of Multilingualism 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Distributed Liderazgo: The Making of Spaces and Leadership Structures for a Multilingual School Ecology (2023)
  • Using Family-Centered Practices to Increase Language Access for Multilingual Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children (2021)
    Advances in educational technologies and instructional design book series 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Toward collaborative partnerships: Lessons from parents and teachers of emergent bi/multilingual students (2020)
    Theory Into Practice 32 citations DOI OpenAlex

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